The OGs

Brand Identity
Client FAR
Discipline Art Direction, Design
By LUKEABC Date 2025

Contents

The OGs — animated logo with cycling emoji and ransom-note typography

Overview

Brand identity for The OGs, a series of 1,024 digital paintings by FAR that reimagine emojis as painterly digital relics. Each work begins as a hand-drawn emoji, then gets rebuilt through algorithms that distort, warp and layer it into something between painting and code.

The project name is a play on OGs and em-O-gees — so the identity needed to live in that same space: familiar symbols, remixed beyond recognition.


The Work

The logo replaces the O in OGs with an emoji — any emoji. The G and S are cut-out letterforms in different typefaces, scales and textures, assembled like a ransom note. Every combination is different. A generative logo for a generative art collection.

The system mirrors the artwork's own logic: take something universal, remix it, and make it strange. The result is an identity that never looks the same twice but always reads as the same thing.

The OGs — ransom-note logo with eight variations showing modified emoji and letterform combinations
One logo, infinite variations.
The OGs — ransom-note logo with eight variations using standard emojis
The OGs — collage of cut-out G letterforms in different typefaces and textures
The Gs — cut from different typefaces, scales and textures.

A clean lockup also exists for simpler applications — bold sans-serif with a single emoji as the O. Both registers work within the same logic.

The OGs — clean logo lockup with melting emoji
Clean lockup — single emoji, consistent type.
The Collection

The artworks themselves: emojis as cultural fossils, run through layers of drawing, computation and digital painting. Visually rooted in early web aesthetics and post-internet art.

The OGs — twin skulls with explosion The OGs — melting face emoji
The OGs — crystal ball emoji The OGs — pixelated rubber duck

Credits
Role Name
Art Direction, Design Lukeabc
Year 2025

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